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REPORT 

OF THE 
COMMITTEE APPOINTED TO TAKE CHARGE OF THE 

CASES OF 
MAJOR CHARLES D. A. LOEFFLER 

AND 

MAJOR W. P. HUXFORD 

BEFORE THE 

COMMANDERY-IN-CHIEF 

OF THE 

MILITARY ORDER OF THE LOYAL LEGION 

AT 
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, 
OCTOBER J2th, J9J0. 



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REPORT, 



Your committee appointed to take charge of the cases of Major Charles D. A. 
Loeffler and Major W. P. Huxford before the Commandery-in-Chief of the Mili- 
tary Order of Loyal Legion at Chicago, Illinois, Oct. 12, 1910, begs leave to report 
as follows: 

Your Committee proceeded to the city of Chicago on the day before the 
meeting of the Commandery-in-Chief, and took charge of a brief prepared by 
Lieut. George H. Patrick, a Companion of our Order, in the cases which had 
been referred to us. 

The copies of this brief we distributed as far as possible among the members 
of the Commandery-in-Chief. In addition we took occasion to present our case 
as far as possible to the different members as they arrived, so that before the 
meeting was formally opened, we had presented to many of the members of the 
Commandery copies of what we regarded as a full, fair and honest statement of 
the situation. 

The Recorder-in-Chief, after the reading of the minutes of the year before, 
stated, as the first business before the Commandery, the consideration of the 
report of the Committee on the Loeffler case, and submitted the following: 

"Resolved that the further consideration of the report of the Committee be 
postponed until the Annual Session of the Commandery-in-Chief, in 1911. I 
move that the report of the Committee he re-committed to the Committee." 

This motion being objected to, it was withdrawn by the Recorder-in-Chief. 



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Thereupon on behalf of the Committee, Companion Warnock submitted the 
following: 



"I move that the matter of the Loeffler case betaken up at once. There is no 
better time than now. I move that we proceed with the consideration of the 
Loeffler case at once." 

Thereupon Companion Burdett, of the District of Columbia Commander} , 
offered the following: 

"Resolved, that the case of Charles David Adam Loeffler now pending on the 
report of the Committee named at the last meeting of the Commanderv-in-Chief , 
be further postponed until the next meeting of the Commandery -in-Chief ; that it 
shall be the duty of the Recorder-in-Chief to furnish to the Commandery of the 
District of Columbia a copy of the paper in the Loeffler case, entitled "Brief for 
the Commandery of the State of Ohio," recently circulated among Companions of 
the Order but not served on the Commandery of the District of Columbia, or 
upon the Recorder, both said Commandery and its Recorder being impugned 
by said brief or paper in the matter of the case of said Companion Loeffler, and 
much of the matter of said brief or paper never having been submitted to any 
Committee of the Commandery-in-Chief, for scrutiny and report." 

Thereupon, after full discussion and after various amendments and motions 
had been offered and discussed, the case of Major Loeffler was fully considered 
and the following motion offered by Major Hosea as a substitute was adopted: 

"Resolved, that the report of the Committee in the Loeffler case be disap = 
proved, and that the objections to his election as a member of the Order be 
dismissed, and the action of the Ohio Commandery in the matter be approved." 

After the adoption of this resolution by an overwhelming vote the Command- 
ery-in-Chief proceeded to the consideration of the charges made against Major 
W. P. Huxford. 



After considerable discussion and much consideration, Companion Warnock, 
after consultation with the other members of the Committee, by permission, 
withdrew the charges preferred by the Ohio Commandery against Major Huxford. 

ajor Huxford was then permitted to read a paper in his own defence in ex- 
tent on of the charges heretofore made against him. 

W, R. WARNOCK. 
LEWIS M. HOSEA, 
J. GORDON TAYLOR, 
C. H. GROSVENOR. 
A- B. 1SHAM, 

Committee. 



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